Jean Schlumberger (writer)

Schlumberger was the son of Paul Schlumberger, the scion of a textile manufacturing family of Alsatian origin, and Marguerite de Witt, the granddaughter of François Guizot.

Schlumberger is best known as a writer of novels, plays and books of poetry.

He was co-founder (with André Gide and Gaston Gallimard) of the Nouvelle Revue Française, a French literary journal.

His non-fiction, especially his autobiography, Éveils, has been neglected by critics and literary historians.

Schlumberger was awarded an honorary doctorate from Leiden University in 1954, together with E. M. Forster and Victor E. van Vriesland.